• @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    Yep that’s right, but I use fdisk to check my drives before writing on them and it also requires sudo…

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Right, I just meant that you can’t sudo cat file > /dev/sda but you can sudo dd ..., because IO redirection isn’t elevated to root with sudo. I’m not saying anything too profound :)